Richard Palmer-James

Lyricist + Prior + Bass

Male

Born Jun 11, 1947

Age 65

Richard Jeffrey Charles Palmer-James was lyricist for the progressive rock group King Crimson in the early 1970s. The unusual role as a non-music playing member was not without precedent: Palmer replaced Peter Sinfield who had also written King Crimson… Read More

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Essex boys Richard, James and Steve. Shown on TV show ' The F Word ' on Channel 4.

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Jun 27, 2006

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Richard James with Friend and Lulu -Theo Fennell 21st Anniversary Party at the Collection, Brompt...

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Oct 29, 2003

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Mother to Be Zoe Ellis Is the First of Walking Adverts For a New Toy, Microbabies, From Toy Compa...

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Sep 4, 2003

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Feb 7, 2003

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Romance

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Priscilla Presley
Dating 2010 - Present
Raquel Welch
Married 1999 - 2005
Leilani Dowding
Dated
Cathy Moriarty
Dated

News + Updates

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9 Brilliant Inventions Made By Mistake
Inc. Magazine - Aug 15, 2012

Without a sloppy scientist, a creative Navy officer's wife, and a hasty sanatorium chef, we might not have penicillin, the Slinky, or Wheaties today. Think necessity is the mother of invention? Not always. There is a very thin line between brilliant innovation and absolute failure, as some of these inventors famously found out. Some of the most popular products we use today were accidents stumbled on by clumsy scientists, chefs who spilled things, and misguided inventors who--in the case ...
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Betty Ernst, 76, Former Fcps Teacher
Burke Patch - Aug 02, 2012

Elizabeth “Betty” McGeachy Ernst, 76, of Springfield, Virginia and Montreat, North Carolina, passed away on July 26, 2012 at Mission Memorial Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina from complications following abdominal surgery. Betty was born to the Reverend Daniel Patrick McGeachy, Jr. and Elizabeth Lyle McClure on February 7, 1936 at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. The “preacher’s daughter” grew up in Monroe, NC and Clearwater, Florida, graduating from Clearwater High School in 1953. S...
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Someone Here Could Help Save A Life At Saturday's Bone Marrow Drive
Cuyahoga Falls Patch - Jun 22, 2012

She's miles away in Vermont, but a group of Stow people organizing a bone marrow drive Saturday for a friend with leukemia hope to find someone in northeast Ohio who is a match for Amelia Lincoln. Who knows, the potential donor could even be in Cuyahoga Falls. Lincoln, who is married to 1999 Stow-Munroe Falls High School graduate James Patterson, recently relapsed which prompted friends to take action. "He told me his wife relapsed with leukemia and we put this all together," said...
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Susan Michals: Le Mans: 24 Hours Of Whacked Outfits, Breaking Records And Speeds Of 149 Mph
Huffington Post - Jun 18, 2012

(Richard, James and Will from Northern England at Le Mans 2012/photo: Susan Michals) First of all, the world's oldest and most famous race is now over. Audi won, (again) with their three driver rotation of Benoît Tréluyer, André Lotterer, and Marcel Fässler with Lotterer setting a new record with a lap time of 3:23.787 at an average of 149 MPH on the 13-mile Le Mans track... in a hybrid no less (the R18 E-tron Quattro). Le Mans is a race of endurance and efficiency -- and that ...
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1947 Birth Born in 1947.

TWENTIES

1974 27 Years Old Palmer wrote lyrics for three of King Crimson's most highly regarded albums, Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Starless and Bible Black, and Red. He did not participate in any of King Crimson's recordings after Robert Fripp temporarily disbanded the group in 1974, but subsequently worked with John Wetton and David Cross from the band. … Read More

THIRTIES

1978 31 Years Old In 1978 he was visited by John Wetton and W.J. Hutcheson, who were his bandmates in Tetrad, and they recorded an album with the German drummer Curt Cress in 10 days called Jack-Knife performing songs from the early days.

FIFTIES

1997 50 Years Old In 1997 he released a CD with former bandmate John Wetton under the title Monkey Business, a compilation of unreleased material including some songs that were recorded for the first time in studio, like a King Crimson tune called "Doctor Diamond". … Read More

2002 55 Years Old … He was a founding member of Supertramp; he played guitar and wrote the lyrics for their self-titled debut album under the name Richard Palmer and co-wrote the lyrics of the song "Goldrush," a song that had existed since his early days in the band and finally been recorded on their 2002 album, Slow Motion.

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